Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-08
LOCAL BREyITIEs.

The Fire Department has received 1906
feet of new hose-something much needed
| Mr.. Treat, of Davisville, will ship from
20 to 100 carloads of pears East this season.
The taxable property of Yolo county has
increased nearly 81 800, 600 in the last year
Turton e Knox want 100 men imme-
dlateiy, to work on the Woodland and
Lake County Railroad.
The Superior Court of Yolo county has
adjourned until Friday, August 18th, tax
ing the usual summer vacation.
The Club Plaisir and friends returned
| about A. NJ. yesterday from their moon
light excursion to Cothrin's Grove, which
proved very successful and ENJOYABLE
affair.
The steamer Flora arrived from the upper
Sacramento with barge load of grain, and
the ID. +. Knight, from Marysville, en-
route to San Francisco, with a barge load
of grain.
The Bric-a-Brac Club and a party of
friends go on an excursion down the river
on the steamer Governor Dana this even
ing. leaving at 6 o'clock sharp from the
foot of n street.
1t now appears that the Yolo wheat crop
will not only be fair average, but will be
one of the largest ever produced in the
county, some large fields going as high as
forty and fifty bushels to the acre.
j. J. West has been appointed by Justice
Post to defend Koening and. Alderman, un-
der arrest for assault to murder Paxon
Mcdowell, and whose cases came up for ex.
animation this morning at 10 o'clock.
The Board of Supervisors met Yesterday,
and spent the entire day examining ac-
counts against the county. The only other
hrIll cd H. IL
K. Houston as Oyerseer of Road District
No. 20.
The following arrests were made yester-
day Geo. Hunt, by officer Sullivan. for
disturbing the peace; Joseph Ochsner,
Justin Domening and n. Zemansky, by
Building Inspector Starr for misdemeanor
IN violating the sign ordinance.
United States Railroad Commissioner
Johnston goes up to Coles by special train
to-day, to inspect the sections of the Cali
fornla and Oregon Railroad recently COM
pleted. w. G. Curtis, Superintendent OF
Track, of the Southern Pacific Company,
accompanies him.
Burt f. Diehl, of Woodland the young
man who was recently very badly injured
at Dunnigan, by combined harvester, is
improving. The injury was very severe
one, when the great shock to the nervous
system and the warm weather are taken
into consideration.
The awning in front of the drug store on
the southwest corner of Sixth and J
streets is feeling the effects of the boom,
and having new top constructed. 1t
would have been an improvement to have
erected new posts, but the owner of the
property considered those at present in
place sufficiently substantial.
Tho avaropa Ci0,al Sor,,;o to,,,.o.o.,.xa
yesterday was 40, which is 80 warmer than
the normal temperature for that day The
highest and lowest temperature was 90
and 3d. with gentle southerly winds and
clear weather. Yesterday was the eleventh
consecutive day of the present heated spell.
Each has recorded a temperature of over
90o
The farmers in the upper country are
exceedingly anxious to get their grain to
market as soon as possible, to take adyan-
tage of the good prices prevailing, and the
railroads and steamers are kept busy. The
railroad company has applications from
various localities for an aggregate of 600
cars Ill addition to the regular trains, and
are puzzled to find and furnish them
The following officers of Sacramento
Council, No. 96, o. C. F., were installed
Wednesday evening n. P. c., F. w. Day;
W. O.r II. y. JOruan V. u, Mrs. L. w.
Lusk Sec, George D. Irwin Treas, j. E.
Parker; P, Mrs. NJ. f. Woolsey; NJ, Mrs.
L. s. Parker W., Geo. Conrad; g., Mrs. E.
P. Day; s., S. B. Lusk. Trustees-M. A.
Howard, W. r. Campbell, W. B. Oldfeld
The Commissioners of Lunacy examined
Anna Daily yesterday as to her sanity, and
committed her to the asylum at Napa, to
which institution she will be taken this
morning. She has led dissolute life, and
her brain has doubtless given way from
excessive drinking. She informed the
Commissioners that the police and other
parties had removed her lungs, heart and
brain, and she did not believe she would
live very long.